{"id":303291,"date":"2018-11-24T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/finalstraw-the-last-straw-youll-ever-need.php"},"modified":"2018-11-24T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T19:48:44","slug":"finalstraw-the-last-straw-youll-ever-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/finalstraw-the-last-straw-youll-ever-need.php","title":{"rendered":"FinalStraw: The Last Straw You\u2019ll Ever Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2018\/11\/Holiday-Gift-Guide_0000_Final-Straw-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p>Depending on who you ask, straws are either having the worst year ever, or a revolutionary one.<\/p><p>For whatever reason, be it Hashtag Activism, or their ticket just finally getting punched, in 2018, everyone&rsquo;s starting to get hip, woke, whatever&mdash;they&rsquo;re fully-realizing the danger of single-use plastics (like plastic straws).<\/p><p>For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/single-use-plastics-ban-eu\">the EU voted to completely ban single-use plastics<\/a>.<\/p><p>Seattle recently became the first <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/plastic-straws-ban-seattle\">major American city to ban plastic straws<\/a>.<\/p><p>And, bottom-lining it, whether you like it or not, the simple fact is this: On a long-enough timeline, there&rsquo;s <em>never<\/em> a good argument <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/plastic-straws-disappearing-oceans\">in favor of plastic straws<\/a>.<\/p><p>Which is why everyone, all the cool kids, are getting themselves their own reusable straws. And not just any straw&mdash;a good one. Maybe one that, say, is easy to clean. Or one that you don&rsquo;t have to schlep around all inconvenient-like. One that comes in a few decent colors would be nice, too? Alas, enter <a href=\"https:\/\/finalstraw.com\/\">FinalStraw<\/a>: The collapsable, cleanable, folding straw-on-a-keychain that took Kickstarter by storm, to the tune of a $1.8 million-dollar crowdfunding campaign. Why all the fuss over a folding straw?<\/p><p>Well: It&rsquo;s simple to clean. It works with all to-go cups. It comes with its own case. It should last you, according to FinalStraw, about 3600 hundred cycles (or five years at twice-a-day use). It&rsquo;s latex-free and BPA-free. It&rsquo;s dishwasher safe. And the case comes in five colors.<\/p><p>But if none of those selling points are enough, how about this one: You&rsquo;ll be saving the world, one sip at a time. Also, it&rsquo;s a brilliantly easy, cheap stocking stuffer for anyone you know. Especially anyone intent on ruining the world with their plastic trash, or trash habits. Or people who can&rsquo;t drink out of the lid of a cup correctly. Or anyone who you just want to smash, with a present, into a moral equivalence quagmire, where they will be forced to reckon with their own innate selfishness and the fact that they do not, in fact, want a better world for those who come after them, and that they are&mdash;let&rsquo;s be perfectly clear&mdash;destined to repeat the cycles of damage, not just to our Earth, but the people on it. Because they just need to drink out of a plastic straw. That, you will argue with this person, is the reason they want their children to have a dying world.<\/p><p>This is a perfect gift for them.<\/p><p>And it only costs $25!&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/finalstraw.com\/products\/the-final-straw\">Buy it here at FinalStraw<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong><em>Want more gift ideas? Check out the full <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/gift-guide\">2018 Futurism Gift Guide here!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><em><span>Editor&rsquo;s note: To create this content, the editorial team sought out products we love without any consideration of payment. That said, if you buy a product through this page Futurism may receive a small commission, which helps us save up for a fleet of jetpacks.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/final-straw-gift-guide\/\">FinalStraw: The Last Straw You&rsquo;ll Ever Need<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>See the rest here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/final-straw-gift-guide\/\" title=\"FinalStraw: The Last Straw You&rsquo;ll Ever Need\">FinalStraw: The Last Straw You&rsquo;ll Ever Need<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Depending on who you ask, straws are either having the worst year ever, or a revolutionary one. For whatever reason, be it Hashtag Activism, or their ticket just finally getting punched, in 2018, everyone\u2019s starting to get hip, woke, whatever\u2014they\u2019re fully-realizing the danger of single-use plastics (like plastic straws). For example, the EU voted to completely ban single-use plastics  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/finalstraw-the-last-straw-youll-ever-need.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}